GPA killing virus sweeps through LHS

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It is like a scene from “The Walking Dead.” There are hundreds of slightly sunburnt students shuffling from one class to another just hoping they have something fun planned and no homework is assigned.

They are only capable of a few things. The most important is counting down the days till graduation. They can finally fit the number on their hands and toes.

Their alarm clock strikes at 7:00 a.m. They try to will themselves to get out of bed but they just can’t. They decide that their first period class isn’t worth going to and hopefully they are able to pry themselves out of bed to make it to second.

The day drags on. They sit and watch movies in half of their classes because they just finished AP tests. They stare out the windows, longing to be outside where the temperature is  near 80 degrees.

The nurse is frantic. She has seen handfuls of kids walk into her office begging to go home because they are “sick.” She looks up the symptoms on WebMD, and the epidemic seems to be sweeping across the country.

She runs into Val Fox’s office. Fox grabs her bullhorn and tells all the underclassmen to stay away from them in hopes to keep the other students from becoming infected too.

Sleep deprived, they return from open lunch and try to sneak into one of the side doors. They are turned away and forced to hike to the front doors.

When they enter the building, they start counting down until the clock chimes at 3:15 p.m. so they can do their calculations to figure out how much closer they’ve gotten to graduation.

These people, they aren’t regular people. They have something that separates them from being like everyone else. They are infected. The only cure is when finals rolls around and they realize how far behind they are and kick it into hyperdrive.

Until they are cured, in the meantime the Center of Disease Control asks for teachers and parents to understand the severity of their condition.

“Senioritis is not something to be messed with,” said Rebecca Martin, leader of the CDC. “These kids have been stripped of their motivation and are longing to be free. We must do everything we can to help these kids graduate.”

With 15 long, grueling days the senior class asks for a little empathy because they aren’t trying to be lazy, the are just infected.